“The fact that women travel less than men â€“ measured in person- kilometers per car, plane, boat and motorcycle â€“ means that women cause considerably fewer CO2 emissions than men and thus considerable less climate change.

“If womenâ€™s consumption levels were to be the norm, both emissions and climate change would be significantly less than today. To put it differently, if men were to change their behavior, emissions and climate change might be a much more limited problem as compared to what it is today.”–Gerd Johnsson-Latham

The debate was taped for a UK documentary called The Greener Gender. Below are some of my thoughts on the debate.

One of Johnsson-Latham’s main theories is that global warming is a gender issue because men pollute more.Â Men work more, drive longer, take airplane trips, etc., whereas women pollute less because they are at home and are not driving or traveling as much.Â

I had problems with this for several reasons.Â One of them is that I believe that many menÂ do these things in part so they can earn the esteem, affection, love, and loyalty of women.Â I said that one of the problems we have is that there is a big, big difference between what feminists want men to do — focus less on making money, spend more time taking care of their children, be less competitive — and what women in the dating market place want men to do.Â

I said that this is aÂ problem which I have never heard a feminist take responsibility for.Â I said, “The first time I hear a feminist say that women have to change their expectations of men and their choices of men, she will be the first.” To my surprise and pleasure, she said, “Well, let me be the first” and said that women do need to take responsibility for this.

Johnsson-Latham said that men are the decision-makers in society, and that they want a consumer oriented-society. She believes that if women were in power, societies would be more about reproductive rights, women’s rights to control their sexuality, fairness and equality and safety for women.Â My view is that if and when women are in positions of power, they’ll make the same decisions that men do. Most of what leaders do they don’t do because they are men–they do them because that’s what leaders have to do, regardless of gender.

The English commentator asked me how I got interested in men’s issues.Â I explained that during the ’80s and ’90s there was a tremendous amount of man-bashing in our popular media. Men were blamed for everything and anything and their sins blown way, way out of proportion.Â She replied, “Glenn is upset about man bashing but I’m upset about woman beating.Â Women are beaten, they earn less money, they have less freedom, they have less power, and they face a grim reality.”

I replied that while women may indeed face a grim reality in some parts of the world — and men’s reality in those countries isn’t much better — it would be highly misleading to portray American women or Western European women or Swedish women as having “a grim reality.”

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So, you didn’t just miss her point you dodged it like it were a bullet! You even tried to educate this feminist from Sweden on feminism in Sweden, as if she doesn’t know that it’s a little better in her country than some others, obviously women like her are the reason for that so she knows duh, not because of men like you that’s for sure. I don’t see how anyone with any sincerity wouldn’t know from her wording that she was comparing men/women not Swedish women/Nigerian women (for example) or whatever,but anyhow, whichever country you go to in the world no matter how good the women have it, always its the men who have it better, that’s point you didn’t want to deal with. The fact that men such as yourself are the norm in the U.S. confirms that U.S. women must have it pretty grim. Believe me I’m sure many women would prefer to just have sex and for it to be the husband who carries, births and feeds babies for a change. I think men are more into that physical aspect anyway women are bored of sex and the work should stop there. Women go to work, come home clean home/cook, pleasure their man…men go to work, don’t show up for dinner, then come to bed wanting sex then sleep. Plus women do all the hard being pregnant, giving birth stuff. I guess the woman beating comes from men wanting to get some of that energy out, I mean they must get annoyed with all women’s hassles and nothing for them to do, they feel so useless, so they try to hassle women to feel useful.????

Applesauceisgoodmmmm said,

in March 22nd, 2011 at 4:06 am

Is that what man’s issues means? Getting into feminists issues and hassling them so men can feel useful? Like the typical man who always wants to give women advice when they’re venting. Just shut up we don’t want your advice, we want you to listen, and find out we are teaching you how you should treat us if you want us to not be so stressed out. A metaphor would be the way men don’t take responsibility for climate change, nature does speak if they would just listen and stop trying to solve its problems.

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